The U.S.-born pope spent about a dozen years as a missionary in Peru and returned there later to serve as a bishop.

We South Asians need to thank Great Power rivals USA and China. The USA has stopped the dangerously escalating Indo-Pak war.

In a country where over 90% of the population identifies as Christian—and nearly three-quarters as Catholic—the election of a new pope is more than a Vatican affair. It's personal.

While it is interesting and perhaps a point of pride that the new Pope Leo XIV was born in the United States, most of the U.S ...

Peruvians have expressed pride and surprise in one of their own becoming pontiff. Augustinians in the country have expressed ...

A special mass at St. John the Evangelist honored Pope Leo XIV, who was born in Chicago and has deep ties to Latin America.

Peruvians have celebrated the election of a man many knew as a missionary and bishop during his 2 decades of service in the ...

Hector Camacho remembers Prevost asking altar boys for help with words in Spanish, taking them on trips to beaches, and ...

Experts see the new pontiff as less confrontational than his predecessor, but willing to stand up for the church's teachings.

Heather and Dominic Jaroch tell PEOPLE about the time Pope Leo XIV — then simply known as “Father Bob" — flew back to Chicago ...

Did Pope Francis have Prevost in mind as his successor? The speed at which Prevost climbed the ladder of the church hierarchy is reason enough to believe so ...

Hector Camacho remembers Robert Prevost, set to be formally inaugurated as Pope Leo XIV on Sunday, as a young jeans-wearing ...